The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-25
HEART TRUTH.
Religious Notes.

A general conference of all evangelical mis-
sions in Mexico Will be held Jan. 81 to Feb. g.
1t is proposed to erect memorial stone church
to Bishop Harrington and the martyred church
at Uganda.
There are now Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations at Jerusalem, Beyrout, Damascus, Jaffa
and Nazareth.
The little kingdom of Wurtemberg is reported
as having about 240 ordained missionaries at
work among the heather.
He that provides for this lfe but takes no
care for eternity, is wise for moment. but a
fool forever, and acts as untowardlv and GROSSLY
to the reason of things be imagined
Tillotson.
About twenty of the richest residents of the
City of Mexico have been fined under the Law
forbidding religious ceremonies and observances
IN the streets, they having placed small affairs
with lighted candles on the balconies of their
houses, on the occasion of the feast of Our Lady
of Guadalupe.
On Good tidings day evening, while assisting
in the services Pasadena, Cal, Rev. II. n.
Barnes. greatly-beloved superannuated mem
Der of the North Indiana Conference. tainted,
and for several days remained in an unconscious
condition he IS now improving. and it is hoped
will regain his usual health.
The Presbyterian hospital in New York. last
year, treated 148 Protestant and 966 Roman
Catholic patients This is one of the signs that
the Roman Catholic Church demands more from
her poor and does less for them than anv other
church. A Catholic nurse said to the writer:
The Catholics have never helped me, and the
John Wesley appears to have had a portable
pulpit which for years past has been used in
dissenting London church called West
street Chapel. This church, in which Wesley
and many of the earlier Methodists preached. is
about to be sold, and the pulpit has been given
to the Wesleyan Connection, and can now be
seen at the Wesleyan Conference office.
Upon the arrival of the Jubilee Fifty Off
GERS of the Salvation Army, who left London in
August. for India, Commander Tucker found
check for Ell. 900, which had been sent to him
to assist in maintaining the work of the army in
that country. The donor. who has amassed a
large fortune. mainly in India, recently gave a
check for $4,000 toward the same object
What mighty force the Christian church is
in the United States. Statistics show that we
have 1872, 0G0 churches, 900 ministers and
100000 members. and yet there are those
who say that the church has no influence, that
it is only small body. Let the church be
country will be saved for God.-Pulpit Treasury.
Jennie Deans says in the Heart of Mid
Lothian: 1T is ma when sleep soft and
wake merrily, oursels, that we think other
peoples sutferings. Our hearts waxed light
within us then. and we are for righting our own
wrongs and fighting battles. But
when the hour o trouble comes to the mind or
to the body, and when the hour O death comes
to high and low. then it is ma what we haze dune
for oursels. but what we haze dune for Others
that we think on maist pleasantly.
The manner in which the English state church
dignitaries may provide for their friends and
recent conservation of Truro Cathedral in
Wales. One of the reverend gentlemen who
oficiated. aged eighty three years, holds his
position, a very lucrative one. under the APP
pointment of his grandfather. Bishop Keppel,
who died in 1878. This exemplary prelate grant
ed the office of registrar by patent for three
lives. of whom Mr.. Keppel is the last The
Bishop, who held the deanery of Windsor, with
his see in commendam, married to a niece
of Horace Walpole. He was consecrated in I762
so he has contrived to quarter his family upon
the diocese for more than 125 years.
The Rev Geo. 0. Barnes is making fair prog
ress in introducing the Gospel of Love- among
the Southern sinners He tells the Stanford
Interior Journal about of his converts at
Columbus Miss: Another, no less touching
but rather rougher testimony to the power of
the truth, was the spontaneous promise of a
poor fellow whose red eyes: suffused with honest
tears, and lntiamed countenance proclaimed too
surely what his besetting sin was. He but
tonholed me after the service and said. as he
dashed away the tears with the back of the
hand: Doctor. the devils been driving me long
enough; L want to say to you now. I've drunk
my last tod" id if haven't I don't sup
pose the dear fellow will ever know till he gets
10 heaven that he literally 'swore off in my |
presence. This was evidently all the emphasis |
he had ever learned to put upon his ordinary |
words. 1t wasn't meant for profanity any more |
han the answer of sailor of whom a navy |
chaplain told me- and my unconsciously- profane |
nebriate. who told me his resolve so feavently, |
ret in language unknown to the drawing room, |
rave Joy in heaven / am certain"